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  • An Encouragement of Learning

    by Yukichi Fukuzawa ...
    Translated by David Dilworth ...
    The intellectual and social theorist Yukichi Fukuzawa wrote An Encouragement of Learning (1872–1876) as a series of pamphlets while completing his critical masterpiece, An Outline of a Theory of Civilization (1875). These closely linked texts illustrate the core tenets of his philosophical outlook: freedom and equality as inherent to human nature, independence as the goal of any individual and ... Read more

    $67.99 CAD

  • An Outline of a Theory of Civilization

    by Yukichi Fukuzawa ...
    Translated by David Dilworth, G. Cameron Hurst III ...
    Yukichi Fukuzawa rose from low samurai origins to become one of the finest intellectuals and social thinkers of modern Japan. Through his best-selling works, he helped transform an isolated feudal nation into a full-fledged international force.In Outline of a Theory of Civilization, the author's most sustained philosophical text, Fukuzawa translates and adapts a range of Western works for a ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

  • George Santayana at 150

    International Intepretations

    by Jose Beltran, Michael Brodrick, Cayetano Estebanez, Michael P. Hodges, Daniel Moreno, Charles Padron, Daniel Pinkas, Herman Saatkamp, Krzysztof Piotr Skowronski, Glenn Tiller, Leonarda Vaiana, Amparo Zacares, Martin A. Coleman, David Dilworth, John Lachs ...
    Santayana at 150: International Interpretations is a collection of essays by seventeen authors celebrating the life and thought of Spanish–American philosopher George Santayana. This book appears on the occasion of the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of Santayana’s birth. Appropriately, the authors come from both sides of the Atlantic and put forth a range of insights that demonstrate the ... Read more

    $158.99 CAD

  • T. S. Eliot and Christian Tradition

    by Anderson D. Araujo, Hazel Atkins, William Blissett, William C. Charron, Thomas Dilworth, David Huisman, Charles Huttar, Dominic Manganiello, William Marx, Christopher McVey, James Seaton, Shunichi Takayanagi, James Matthew Wilson, John D. Morgenstern Jr., Lee Oser, Paul Robichaud ...
    T. S. Eliot was raised in the Unitarian faith of his family in St. Louis but drifted away from their beliefs while studying philosophy, mysticism, and anthropology at Harvard. During a year in Paris, he became involved with a group of Catholic writers and subsequently went through a gradual conversion to Catholic Christianity.Many studies of Eliot's writings have mentioned his religious beliefs, ... Read more

    $78.99 CAD

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    Revised Edition

    by Richard Mason, J. G. Caiger ...
    A classic of Japanese history, this book is the preeminent work on the history of Japan.Newly revised and updated, A History of Japan is a single-volume, comprehensive account of Japan's history. Starting in ancient Japan during its early pre-history period, A History of Japan covers every important aspect of history and culture through feudal Japan to the post-Cold War period and the collapse of ... Read more

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  • Training the Samurai Mind

    A Bushido Sourcebook

    by Thomas Cleary ...
    A fascinating, eclectic collection of writings—spanning four hundred years—on samurai ethos, training, and education, from premier translator Thomas ClearyThrough the ages, the samurai have been associated with honor, fearlessness, calm, decisive action, strategic thinking, and martial prowess. Their ethos is known as bushido, the Way of the Warrior-Knight.Here, premier translator Thomas Cleary ... Read more

    $25.59 CAD

  • Samurai Wisdom

    Lessons from Japan's Warrior Culture - Five Classic Texts on Bushido

    by Thomas Cleary ...
    The ancient warrior culture of Japan produced a sophisticated martial philosophy that we know today as Bushido—the Way of the Warrior. In Samurai Wisdom, author Thomas Clearly provides five important new translations of major Japanese works on Bushido.The writings of the scholar Yamaga Soko and his disciples are among the clearest expositions we have of the core ideals and philosophy underlying ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Japan

    An Attempt at Interpretation

    by Lafcadio Hearn ...
    Scholar and travel writer Lafcadio Hearn spent decades in Japan, eventually adopting it as his home country. Perhaps more than any other single writer, Hearn is responsible for documenting and interpreting Japan for Western audiences. In this engrossing volume, Hearn undertakes his most comprehensive comparative analysis of Japanese culture. ... Read more

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  • IDEALS OF THE SAMURAI

    Writings of Japanese Warriors

    by William Scott Wilson ...
    Blockbuster movies and top-selling novels, such as ShŌgun and Musashi, may try to give us a picture of the Japanese warrior and the principles that guided him through life. But those portrayals are, essentially, outsiders’ views, and although perhaps valid in their own right, do not come from the source. For a more accurate study of the Japanese samurai, we must understand how the warrior saw ... Read more

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  • Annihilation of Caste

    by Dr B.R. Ambedkar, Digital Fire ...
    First published in May 1936, ‘Annihilation of Caste’ is a work of political writing that spoke against the caste system and Hindu orthodox religious leaders, written by Dr. B.R. Ambedkar, a very renowned political leader, distinguished jurist, Buddhist activist, philosopher, anthropologist, historian, orator, writer, economist, scholar, and editor. Dr. Ambedkar fought to eliminate social ... Read more

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  • Wen-tzu

    Understanding the Mysteries: Further Teachings of Lao Tzu

    by Lao Tzu ...
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    Lao-tzu, the legendary sage of ancient China, is traditionally considered to be the author of the Tao Te Ching, one of the most popular classics of world literature. Now Lao-tzu's further teachings on the Tao, or Way, are presented here in the first English translation of the Chinese text known as the Wen-tzu. Although previously ignored by Western scholars, the Wen-tzu has long been revered by ... Read more

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  • Gandhi: 'Hind Swaraj' and Other Writings

    by Mohandas Gandhi ...
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    Hind Swaraj is Mahatma Gandhi's fundamental work. It is a key to understanding not only his life and thought but also the politics of South Asia in the first half of the twentieth century. For the first time this volume presents the 1910 text of Hind Swaraj and includes Gandhi's own Preface and Foreword (not found in other editions) and annotations by the editor. In his Introduction, Anthony Parel ... Read more

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